May I, 1908.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



267 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



William .NKMcrtry. 



WILLIAM McMURTEY. 



WILLIAM McMurtry. who died on March 29 at Newton, 

 New Jersey, in his eighty-eighth year, was treasurer of 

 the Rubber and Celluloid Harness Trimming Co. (Newark), 

 which position he had held from the organization of the 

 company, December i. 1877. Mr. McMurtry w^as the son 

 of John and I'^lizabeth ( Simpson, McMurtry, and was born 

 September 9. 1820, at Basking Ridge, New Jersey. About 

 1840 he settled at Newton, where he opened a store, but later 

 went to Newark, living there until about 30 years ago, when 

 he again became a resident of Newton, from which place he 



long w-ent regularly to 

 business in Newark. 

 His connection with 

 the harness trimming 

 company above men- 

 tioned brought him into 

 business contact with the 

 late Andrew .A.lbright, 

 the previous president of 

 the company for 27 

 years, until the death 

 of the latter, in 1905. 



Mr. McMurtry had 

 been a familiar figure 

 in the community in 

 which he lived from the 

 earliest recollection of 

 most persons there, 

 and the estimate in 

 which he was held was 

 simimed up by a neighbor: "All that was good, honest, and 

 true was embodied in his life. We never heard him speak 

 ill of any one, nor did any one ever speak ill of him." He 

 was remarkably vigorous for one of his years until within 

 a few weeks of the end, and retained his interest in business 

 to the last. 



During his first residence in Newton, Mr. McMurtrj' 

 married Catherine, daughter of David Ryerson, who lived 

 until two years ago. They are survived by three daughters — 

 Mrs. David Ruttcr, of Pine Iron W'orks, Pennsylvania; Mrs. 

 Henry H. Welles, Jr.. W'ilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Miss 

 Frances McMurtry, of Newton. Funeral services were con- 

 ducted by the Rev. C. W. Rouse and the Rev. Dr. Samuel 

 Carlile, on April i, and the interment was in the family plot 

 in Newton cemetery. The portrait herewith appears through 

 the courtesy of the Sussex Register, of Newton, N. J. 



GEORGE 0. CXTRRIEE. JR. 



George O. Currier, Jr., of the firm of George O. Currier & 

 Sons, Boston, died at St. Margaret's Hospital in that city on the 

 afternoon of March 30. He had been ill for some three weeks 

 with appendicitis, and after an operation, although he made a 

 brave fight for life and everything was done that skill could 

 suggest, he had not the strength to rally. 



Mr. Currier was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, in 

 1870; was educated in the Boston public schools and some years 

 ago went into business with his father in note and investment 

 brokerage. Mr. Currier, Jr., made a specialty of rubber stocks 

 and investments and was very well known in the rubber trade, 

 particularly in New England. He was for several years treas- 

 urer of the Jamaica Plain Club. He also belonged to the New 

 England Rubber Club and had served on important committees. 

 Personally Mr. Currier was very popular. He was friendly in a 

 quiet, gentlemanly way, was a golf, tennis and billiard player of 

 more than usual ability, and had a very large circle of friends. 



The funeral services were held on the afternoon of April 2 

 at his father's residence in Jamaica Plain, the rector of the Epis- 



copal church in that town officiating. The New England Rubber 

 Club and other associations to which he belonged sent beautiful 

 floral offerings and were represented by prominent members. 



The following resolutions of sympathy were engrossed and 

 sent to the bereaved family : 



NEW ENGLAND RUBBER CLUB. 



At a special meeting of the New England Rubber Club, held on Tuesday,. 

 March 31, 1908, the following resolutions were passed: 



Whereas, The sad news of the death of our friend and fellow member, 

 George O. Currier. Jr^ has come as a great shock to the members of the" 

 New England Rubber Club. Intimately connected with our trade during 

 his entire business career, his commercial abilities, his genial personality 

 and good fellowship will cause his loss to be most keenly felt by all who 

 have had the privilege of personal or business associations with him. 



Resolved. That this club extend to his family its sincere and most heart- 

 felt sympathy. 



Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the records of the club, 

 and copies engrossed and sent to his family and his business associates. 



GEORGE P. WHITMORE. 

 ELSTON E. W.ADBROOK, 

 ALEXANDEP M. PAUL. 



Committee on Resolutions. 



DEATH OF MBS. HODGMAN. 



The news will be heard with widespread regret ot the death 

 of Mrs. A. Louise Hodgm.\n, w-idow of the late George F. Hodg- 

 man, which occurred on April 13 at Larchmont, New York. She 

 was a daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth B. Barker, and was 

 in her sixty-fifth year. She was married to Mr. Hodgman in 

 1866 and they are survived by two sons, George B. and S. Theo- 

 dore Hodgman, who are respectively vice president and secretary 

 of the Hodgman Rubber Co. (New York). Funeral services 

 were held on the afternoon of April 15 at the residence of Mr. 

 George B. Hodgman, in West Seventy-fifth street, New York. 



deaths in the trade in ENGLAND. 



William Ormiston Callender, who died at his residence in 

 Bournemouth, England, on March 14, in his eighty-first year, 

 was the founder of the business of Callender & Sons, which in 

 1882 was transferred to a company formed under the name 

 Callender's Bitumen Telegraph and Waterproof Co., Limited, 

 with £100,000 capital. This was succeeded, in turn, in 1896 by 

 the existing Callender's Cable and Construction Co., Limited, of 

 London, with £500,000 share and £300.000 debenture capital. The 

 basis of all these businesses was an insulating material in which 

 Trinidad bitumen formed the chief ingredient, and which ma- 

 teria! became widely known in Europe as a dielectric for under- 

 ground mains, under the name "vulcanized bitumen." Mr. 

 Callender was largely instrumental in the introduction of asphalt 

 from the lakes of Trinidad, not only into London but into con- 

 tinental Europe, for paving and other purposes. He ceased to 

 take an active part in the working management of his company's 

 affairs in 1893. but served as an active member of the board 

 until 1903 and thereafter as a "special" director. It may be 

 remembered that Mr. Callender organized an American company 

 about 1884, but it had only a short lived career. 



Philip Frankenstein, founder of the well known water- 

 proofing firm of P. Frankenstein & Sons, Limited, of Manchester, 

 England, died on March 12 in his seventy-fifth year. Mr. Fran- 

 kenstein became a resident of Manchester in 1854, commencing 

 business in connection with the waterproofing trade in that year, 

 but it was not until several years later that the "Victoria" 

 proofing works, now operated by the Frankenstein firm at New- 

 ton Heath, Manchester, were founded. 



Five thousand trees planted by the General Ceylon Rubber and 

 Tea Co., Limited, yielded during the last business year an aver- 

 age of 254 pounds of rubber. 



Me. L. a. Ostien, who has been mentioned in these pages as 

 one of the five directors of the Rubber Planters' Association of 

 Mexico, is plantation manager of the St. Paul Tropical Develop- 

 ment Co., with offices at St. Paul, Minnesota, and a plantation 

 on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, 

 For a number of years before going to Mexico Mr. Ostien was 

 in the faculty of the .Agricultural College of Utah. 



